Ian Holloway’s Blackpool still look good to avoid relegation – Premier League update
Blackpool’s boss, Ian Holloway has insisted that Blackpool are in a relatively comfortable position and it is just a matter of two wins which will keep the Tangerines in the Premier League for the next 2011-12 season. The manager believes that each and every
game remaining in the season has its own importance and his team will not take them lightly.
The English Premier League is drawing towards its end and the title race is still on between the current leaders, Manchester United and Arsenal. Manchester City also stands an outside chance of winning the title as well. On the other hand, three relegation
places are also undecided and the fight is on between the bottom five teams which also include Blackpool.
However, the Blackpool boss revealed that it’s totally a ridiculous thing to tell the players which particular game is important because they are professionals and know the importance of each game. The 48-year-old said that Blackpool’s next game against
Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park is not necessarily a must-win situation for his team. He added that it will be treated as an important game which is necessary to keep the momentum going.
Holloway further said, "I think the [idea of] so-called crucial, bigger games is rubbish. I think it is nonsense. It is a fan thing, if I went into my dressing room before the Blackburn match and said to my lads, ‘We’ve got to win this. It is the most important
game of the season and we have to do it’, then how would we be able to play? They would be a bag of nerves. You can’t think of the result.”
The manager claimed that six points would be enough to keep his Tangerines outfit in the Premier League from the remaining nine games but it does not mean that his team would only concentrate on winning the two games but would treat every game as a final.
Manager added that, “But it is totally different this time. I think we can lose seven of our last nine, win the other two and possibly stay up. If Blackburn beat us, fair enough it wouldn’t be the best but we would still be living and fighting and kicking.
By the same token, does beating Blackburn and going three points above them guarantee us staying up? No.”
Blackpool, who started the season on a great note have recently experienced a slump in their form which keeps them reeling around the relegation zone. Tangerines are currently fifteenth in the League table with thirty-two points and are just one point clear
of the relegation zone and level on points with West Bromwich Albion and Blackburn Rovers.
Ian Holloway will lead his side to Ewood Park on Saturday, the 19 of March, to take on Blackburn http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rovers-c40385 in an important encounter.
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